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| Title |
Theory of mind: a new perspective on the puzzle of belief ascription
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, August 2015
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| DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01184 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Gabriella Airenti |
| Abstract |
The concept of theory of mind (ToM) has considerably changed since its first proposal. The aim of first human studies was to understand how young children acquire the representation of others' mental states, in particular beliefs, and how they distinguish them from their own and from reality. The False Belief Task was designed to prove the acquisition of this capacity. According to children's performance in this test the acquisition of ToM has been attested at around 4 years of age. In last years it has been shown that using spontaneous response tasks also 15-month-old-children could attribute to an agent a false belief about the location of an object. These results have generated the puzzle of belief-ascription: Why do 3-year-old children fail the classical false belief tasks whereas much younger children show the correct expectation in the spontaneous response tasks? In this paper I shall argue that (i) infants and young children, when confronted with the two forms of false belief tasks do not face the same problem and (ii) behind the two testing situations there are different ways to understand theory of mind. I shall propose that what appears in infants is the natural human disposition to intersubjectivity. |
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| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 1 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Type | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Members of the public | 1 | 100% |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 1 | 1% |
| Germany | 1 | 1% |
| Unknown | 73 | 97% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 18 | 24% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 16 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 10 | 13% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 4 | 5% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 4 | 5% |
| Other | 7 | 9% |
| Unknown | 16 | 21% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 34 | 45% |
| Linguistics | 3 | 4% |
| Agricultural and Biological Sciences | 3 | 4% |
| Philosophy | 3 | 4% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 3 | 4% |
| Other | 14 | 19% |
| Unknown | 15 | 20% |
Attention Score in Context
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